The process comparing the empirical cumulative distribution function of the
sample with a parametric estimate of the cumulative distribution function is
known as the empirical process with estimated parameters and has been
extensively employed in the literature for goodness-of-fit testing. The
simplest way to carry out such goodness-of-fit tests, especially in a
multivariate setting, is to use a parametric bootstrap.
Starting from the characterization of extreme-value copulas based on
max-stability, large-sample tests of extreme-value dependence for multivariate
copulas are studied. The two key ingredients of the proposed tests are the
empirical copula of the data and a multiplier technique for obtaining
approximate p-values for the derived statistics. The asymptotic validity of the
multiplier approach is established, and the finite-sample performance of a
large number of candidate test statistics is studied through extensive Monte
Carlo experiments for data sets of dimension two to five.
It is often reasonable to assume that the dependence structure of a bivariate
continuous distribution belongs to the class of extreme-value copulas. The
latter are characterized by their Pickands dependence function. In this paper,
a procedure is proposed for testing whether this function belongs to a given
parametric family. The test is based on a Cram\'{e}r--von Mises statistic
measuring the distance between an estimate of the parametric Pickands
dependence function and either one of two nonparametric estimators thereof
studied by Genest and Segers [Ann. Statist. 37 (2009) 2990--3022].